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When Will We Finally Have Sex In Space?

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Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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I think there must have been this rumor floating around NASA for the longest time that if they

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discussed sex in space they would go blind or something like that.

0:41.8

Today we're talking about the Big Bang, but not in the way you probably think.

0:47.0

We're talking about sex, specifically sex in space.

0:51.0

It's a topic NASA and other space agencies have treated as taboo for decades

0:56.0

because let's be real, nobody wants to explain to Congress why taxpayer dollars

1:01.0

would be spent on something so titillating.

1:04.3

This prudish head-in-the-and-and-a-sand approach worked well enough for managing the straight-laced

1:09.0

Boy Scout-like and overwhelmingly male astronaut crews of half a century ago.

1:14.7

But today, with human spaceflight booming is never before, and more and more everyday people

1:19.3

signing up to someday slip Earth's surly bonds, figuring out how folks will stay healthy and happy in orbital

1:26.2

habitats is actually kind of important, and sex is a fundamental part of that complex equation.

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